// Internet Duct Tape

RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.

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• [DESIGN] Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015
  • Great and humorous overview of everything people do wrong
  • (design, usability, web)
  • (webpagesthatsuck.com, 1000 saves, 1847 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] 27 Tips for Building a Kick-Ass Blog
  • Very good, and winner of the DailyBlogTips tips contest.
  • (blogging, blog, tips, marketing)
  • (performancing.com, 720 saves, 92 inbound links, 899 diggs)
• [RESUME] Ten Tips for a (Slightly) Less Awful Resume
  • Resume tips for programmers.
  • (resume, career, tips, cv, advice)
  • (steve-yegge.blogspot.com, 636 saves, 58 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [CODE] A Visual Guide to Version Control
  • Print this off and give it to the guy at work who still doesn’t use revisioning.
  • (subversion, svn, versioncontrol, programming)
  • (betterexplained.com, 574 saves, 19 inbound links, 51 diggs)
• [FIREFOX] Create the Ultimate Firefox Web Development Profile
  • Has all of my favorites, plus a few that I was missing like open in Opera, IE View Lite
  • (firefox, webdev, extensions, webdesign)
  • (howtogeek.com, 420 saves, 30 inbound links, 9 diggs)
• [INTERVIEWS] The Button
  • The best way to be successful in interviews is to ask interesting questions.
  • (career, interview, interviewing, interviews, hiring, rands)
  • (randsinrepose.com, 333 saves, 30 inbound links, 756 diggs)
• [CODE] RefactorMyCode.com
  • Post up code snippets to get help. Supports multiple languages.
  • (code, refactoring, ruby, rubyonrails, community)
  • (refactormycode.com, 310 saves, 32 inbound links, 761 diggs)
• [SOCIAL] Turn Gmail (or any E-mail Account) Into a Social Network Hub
  • Using RSS and open APIs to make Gmail your one inbox to rule them all.
  • (gmail, socialnetworking, facebook, Twitter, socialsoftware)
  • (micropersuasion.com, 294 saves, 64 inbound links, 13 diggs)
• [BROWSER] WebRunner – MozillaWiki
  • Standalone mozilla based browser client for interacting with a specific web site. The ultimate distraction free environment.
  • (browser, mozilla, webrunner)
  • (wiki.mozilla.org, 286 saves, 92 inbound links)
• [DESIGN] Over 35 Different Styles of RSS Icons
  • Something you always need for blog design.
  • (rss, icons, design, webdesign)
  • (designbliss.com, 259 saves, 27 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [CODE] Confessions of a Terrible Programmer
  • From the article: ” You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer.”
  • (programming, development, advice, debugging)
  • (kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com, 193 saves, 18 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [CODE] Fire your best people…reward the lazy ones
  • TroubleShooters vs TroublePreventers
  • (programming, management, productivity, code)
  • (testearly.com, 146 saves, 29 inbound links, 1 diggs)
• [CODE] Building a Fort: Lessons in Software Estimation
  • Steve McConnel builds a fort and compares it to building software.
  • (development, programming, estimation)
  • (blogs.construx.com, 142 saves, 13 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [GTD] tracks.tra.in
  • Free online version of the Tracks app built in Rails.
  • (GTD, productivity, tracks, web2.0)
  • (tracks.tra.in, 138 saves, 57 inbound links)
• [PROBLOG] 46 Tax Deductions that Bloggers Often Overlook
  • Tax deductions for people who run their blog like a small business.
  • (taxes, business, blogging, tax, problogger)
  • (problogger.net, 81 saves, 21 inbound links, 30 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] Personal unit tests
  • Lifehacks for programmers goes to far :)
  • (lifehacks, productivity, gtd, geek, organization)
  • (hober.backpackit.com, 66 saves, 13 inbound links)
• [WEB2.0] Social Networking Invitation Etiquette
  • How inviting people on social networks should work. How you know the person, and who you know in common.
  • (socialnetworking, netiquette, socialsoftware, web2.0)
  • (radar.oreilly.com, 60 saves, 30 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [COPYRIGHT] Creative Commons sued for deception
  • Another useless lawsuit. He licensed his photos as free for commercial use and now whines when it happens. That isn’t a default setting.
  • (creativecommons, copyright)
  • (theregister.co.uk, 22 saves, 33 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [STARTUPS] User Bases, Pricing, Revenue, and the Value of Users
  • Back of the envelope calculations for how much revenue per user and number of users you need with a freemium model.
  • (software, revenue, startups, entrepreneurship)
  • (blogs.xobni.com, 14 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [HUMOR] Why I switched back from Rails to Assembler
  • follow up from the ruby to php article
  • (ruby, rails, humor, rubyonrails)
  • (jooto.com, 10 saves, 3 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [GEEK] Amazing LEGO n’ milk 3D Scanner
  • Create 3 dimensional scans of objects using milk (opaque liquid) and lego. Pretty crazy video.
  • (3d, hardware, diy, lego)
  • (etre.com, 9 saves, 14 inbound links)
• [SMO] 7 reasons why i thumbed you down on stumbleupon
  • I think most StumbleUpon users think the same way, I know that I do.
  • (socialsoftware, smo, stumbleupon)
  • (muhammadsaleem.com, 3 saves, 9 inbound links, 28 diggs)
• [PDF] How to Edit, Merge, Split and Convert PDF Files
  • Freeware tool for PDF editing
  • (pdf, freeware, editors)
  • (friedbeef.com, 2 saves)
• [IPOD] Death Clock
  • Find out when your iPod is going to die based on usage.
  • (ipod, itunes)
  • (thefoologs.com, 3 inbound links)
• [COMICS] Boxen
  • Tool for creating comic layouts. Builds a blank layout you can print or import into your graphics program.
  • (boxen, comics, art, photoshop)
  • (simulatedcomicproduct.com, 2 diggs)
• [CODE] OSCON 2007: A Lexicon for Open Source, by r0ml
  • Interesting idea, use old latin words that mean the same thing in tech instead of inventing acronyms
  • (code, latin, programming)
  • (canspice.org)
• [MICROSOFT] Bug in Excel 2007
  • Excel 2007 suffers from amateur variable size overflow bug that is typical of a 1st year university student
  • (excel, 2007, Microsoft)
  • (groups.google.com, 52 inbound links)
• [STARTUPS] Learn From an Adsense Millionaire: Notes on Markus Frind and PlentyofFish.com
  • Great collection of quotes from one of my startup heroes, Markus Frind.
  • (plentyoffish, adsense, quotes)
  • (doshdosh.com, 27 inbound links, 9 diggs)
• [FIREFOX] Four Ways to Make More Money with Adsense Firefox Referrals Program
  • I encourage people to use Firefox all the time. I should look into this.
  • (firefox, adsense)
  • (doshdosh.com, 9 inbound links)
• [GTD] 20 Procrastination Hacks
  • I think this actually covers everything I’ve ever read on moving from procrastination to getting things done.
  • (gtd, lifehacks, productivity, procrastination)
  • (betterlifeforum.com, 15 inbound links, 1 diggs)

Legend

• saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
• inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
• diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com

This Week at Internet Duct Tape

• When is it time to get a new iPod?

  Death Clocks use statistical information to let you know when you are going to die based on your habits (with smoking and obesity being the worst factors). The iPod Death Clock (via) is an interesting little web app that figures out how much longer your iPod has to live based on the serial number…

• 7 Tips for Learning the Declutter Habit

  Why declutter? It frees up your house and it frees up your mind. Your possessions own you as anyone who has ever had to move repeatedly over the course of several years can attest. It was moving twice in one year that finally got me to get rid of CDs I no longer listened to and textbooks I…

• Blog Tip: Creating a Blog Maintenance Start Page with Netvibes

  In Blogger GTD, Leo mentioned that it was a good idea to have one inbox for all your blogging related notifications. I hate cluttering in my inbox, but I do agree that it makes sense to have a single point of reference rather to spend 5 minutes checking some information in one place and then spend 5…

• Only Two Days Left to Win Graphic Design Services for Your Blog

  Two days left to win free graphic design for your blog.

• Best of Feeds – 22 links – programming, blogging, tips, javascript, rails

  Tags: blogging, inspiration, javascript, lifehacks, productivity, programming, rails, strategy, stumbleupon, tips

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